The quotations of

Robert Frost

American poet

1874–1963

59 quotes, most often on Poetry, Love and Writing. Part of the Poets collection.

We love the things we love for what they are.
Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), Hyla Brook
- Love
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
- Poetry
- Writing
Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
Birches (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), BirchesIn context
- Love
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
A Witness Tree (1942), “The Secret Sits”
- Knowledge
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Acquainted with the Night, West-Running Brook (1928)In context
- Time
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)In context
- Nature
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)In context
- Responsibility
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)In context
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
Mending Wall (1914)In context
Good fences make good neighbours.
Mending Wall (1914)In context
- Friendship
- Wisdom
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Birches (1915)In context
- Happiness
- Nature
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
The Road Not Taken (1915)In context
- Decisions
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
Fire and Ice (1920)In context
- Emotion
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Acquainted with the Night (1928)In context
- Emotion

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